About the Author

At present International Lithium Corp. has nine viable projects including operations within the world-renowned Lithium Belt in South America as well as highly prospective Mavis Lake, Ontario, and Blackstairs, Ireland.

Is it risk on, or risk off? Are we looking at a fear trade situation where gold is the only true safe haven asset? Or will the world’s central banks open the monetary floodgates as many suspect is going to happen?

There aren’t any nickel names left. Once Inco went, who do you invest in if you want nickel? Here’s something else to think about – when was the last time you heard of a major mining company actually finding a deposit?

Global deficit hawks are driving forward with their austerity programs. They don’t get it – private firms, despite having piles of cash, will not let go of the purse strings if we fail to make adequate infrastructure investments.

The US dollar, the euro, the yen, all the world’s currencies, are being de-valued by the massive money creation that has taken place and that will continue to happen. Gold’s not really rising – it’s fiat currencies that are falling.

Gold no longer has a legal role in the world’s monetary system, but because of a collapse of faith in sovereign obligations and a coming complete lack of trust in governments and financial institutions, gold is going to quickly become a core banking asset.

China has recently revealed the size of its copper inventories – and they scared the hell out of investors when they did it. Do you think China might have an interest in inflating the size of its stockpiles to push prices down?

For the very first time in our history all money, all currencies, are now fiat. The US dollar used to be gold backed and it was the rock to which all of the world's currencies were anchored. Our 41-year experiment with paper money is almost over.

It’s obvious that starting very soon, and continuing for at least a decade , there is going to be a significant shortfall of uranium supply. Where is the US, and the rest of the world, going to source its needed uranium from?